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New York,
December 15, 2011--Today's
murder of Gadzhimurad Kamalov, founder of the independent newspaper Chernovik in the southern Russian republic of
Dagestan today is a lethal blow to press freedom, said the Committee to Protect
Journalists.

It's easy to use polarizing descriptions
of online news-gathering. It's the domain of citizen journalists, blogging without
pay and institutional support, or it's a sector filled with the digital works
of "mainstream media" facing financial worries and struggling to offer employees
the protection they once provided. But there is a growing middle ground:
trained reporters and editors who work exclusively online on projects born independent
of traditional media. They share many of the practices of an older generation
of reporters, but their work draws from the decentralized and agile practices of
the digital world.

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New York, August 11, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns
the slaying in Dagestan today of Abdulmalik Akhmedilov, an editor known for his critical commentary, and urges Russian authorities to thoroughly probe
journalism as the motive. Akhmedilov, 32, left, was shot in his car at around 1 p.m. local time on the outskirts of Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, the independent Caucasus news Web site Kavkazsky Uzel reported.

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New York, November 19, 2008--The Committee to
Protect Journalists condemns the brazen attack onEdik Baghdasarian, the editor of the Yerevan-based online
newsmagazine Hetq. Three unidentified
men ambushed Baghdasarian on Monday outside his office and badly beat him.

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I met Anna Politkovskaya
in person only once, in 2005. She was in New
York to collect yet another journalism award, and
stopped by CPJ one October afternoon.

I remember her crossing the lobby with an even, determined
step. She had an urgency about her--that rare focus that comes only with
absolute clarity about one's mission in life. Politkovskaya's passion was
almost tangible--neither her low voice nor her poised delivery could camouflage
it. It radiated from her whole being--her hand gestures; her steady gaze; the
way she tossed back her strikingly gray hair.

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"The current situation has made it necessary for the First
Main Directorate (PGU) of [Russia's]
KGB to give the First Main Directorate of [Bulgaria's] Ministry of Internal
Affairs the following special means: devices for silent, mechanical ejection of
special needles, containing swift poisons. ..."

The above is an excerpt from Addendum 13 of the "Perspective
plan for cooperation between the intelligence services of USSR and communist
Bulgaria in the period 1972-1975"--a secret document made public thanks to
Hristo Hristov, an investigative reporter with the Bulgarian independent daily Dnevnik
who won a six-year-long legal battle for access to the secret archives of Bulgaria's
National Investigative Service (NRS), the country's security agency. Last week,
Hristov published his book The Double Life
of Agent Piccadilly, based on more than 90 volumes of previously
undisclosed NRS documents that shed light on the 1978 murder in London of
Bulgarian dissident journalist Georgi Markov.

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New York, September 3, 2008--Authorities must thoroughly investigate the murder in Dagestan of Telman Alishayev, a reporter and host for the Islamic television channel TV-Chirkei, and the severe attack in Kabardino-Balkariya against Miloslav Bitokov, editor-in-chief of the independent weekly Gazeta Yuga.

Alishayev died today of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack on Tuesday in Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala. He is the second journalist to be shot and killed in the restive North Caucasus region in three days. Magomed Yevloyev, the owner of the critical news Web site Ingushetiya, was killed in the custody of Ingush police on Sunday.

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Killings and
attacks on journalists in the North Caucasus region of Russia continues to be in the news today, with Philadelphia-based newspaper
The Bulletin running a story
about the violence.

Web site Reclaim
the Media has reporting about the arrests of various journalists
covering the RNC, and mentions our coverage. The Huffington Post
also had a blog
entry yesterday about the arrests in St. Paul and the lack of coverage on them.

Britain's
The
Telegraph online has a long piece analyzing Cuban life in the post-Castro era
and cites our research
on the continued repression of a free press there, pointing out that "Cuba
is still one of the world's most censored nations."

September 4, 2008 12:10 PM ET

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New York, September 2, 2008--Russian federal authorities must undertake a thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into Sunday's shocking death of Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the popular news Web site Ingushetiya, who was killed in the custody of police in Ingushetia, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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This
Monday, the fourth anniversary of the Beslan school hostage crisis, Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sedated a Siberian tiger to save--or so legend
has it--a state television crew.

As
survivors of the Beslan tragedy gathered at the graveyard outside the North
Ossetian town to mourn the more than 330 victims--mostly children--killed in the
massacre, Putin was roaming the wilderness of Russia's far east. Roaming it with
television cameras and a tranquilizer gun.